Fountain window-cleaner



(No Model.)

as as Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

N. PEYERQ Phulwlilhagnpmr. Washington. a. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WILLIAM MIINOH, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOUNTAIN WINDOW-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,937, dated April 9,1889.

Application filed May 14, 1888. Serial. No. 273,793. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY WILLIAM MiiNOH, of Somerville, county ofMiddlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inFountain Window-Cleaners, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel window-washingbrush.

My improved brush for washing windows in stores, &c., is attached to areservoir or receptacle for water, and has a series of outlets ordischarge-nozzles, preferably extended through the base or head of thebrush, and supplying water to the bristles gradually to enable the waterto be used economically. The reservoir or receptacle is preferablyprovided with a self-closing or automatically-operated valve adapted tobe opened, as herein shown, by gravity when the brush is turned upsidedown to dip the reservoir or receptacle into a pail or other vesselcontaining water, and to be closed when the brush is elevated or turnedup to wash a window.

My invention therefore consists, essentially, in the combination, with abrush composed of a perforated head and bristles attached thereto, of areceptacle or reservoir secured to-the said head and provided with ahandle and an automatically-operated valve, substantially as will bedescribed.

Other features of my invention will be pointed out in the claims at theend of this specification.

The drawing shows a longitudinal section of a brush embodying myinvention, the nozzles or discharge-outlets being shown enlarged toenable them to be more clearly seen.

The brush composed of the preferably wooden head or base a and bristlesa, securely fastened therein in the usual manner, is secured to areservoir or receptacle, a preferably of metal, the said metallicreceptacle or reservoir being shown as corrugated at its opposite endsto obtain strength.-

The receptacle or reservoir a is preferably cylindrical in shape, andhas its end opposite the brushes made convex, the more readily to entera pail or bucket.

The reservoir a is provided with a valve, (9, hinged, as at b, to theinner side of the said reservoir, and preferably made of such weight asto be readily operated upon by gravity.

The receptacle or reservoir a is provided, as shown, with a falsebottom, herein shown as a perforated plate, b having nozzles 19preferably extended through the base or head a, and-by which the waterin the reservoir is discharged in fine streams upon the bristles of thebrush, the water following the bristles to their ends, the plate 6 beingprovided, as shown, with a flange, 12 which is preferably soldered tothe reservoir a to render the same Water-tight.

My improved wash-brush has a suitable handle, 0, herein shown asfastened, as by pin 0, into a socket, 0 attached to the side of thereservoir.

In operation the rear end of the reservoir is dipped into a pail orother vessel containing water, and the said water flows into thereceptacle or reservoir through the opening in its side normallyclosedby the valve 1), but which becomes uncovered by the valve as thereservoir is dipped into the vessel containing water, the said valvedropping into the position indicated by dotted lines. When a sufficientor desired amount of water has entered the receptacle a ,the latter isremoved from the pail and turned into operative position, with thebristles presented to the window to be Washed, the water in thereservoir flowing through the nozzles or discharge-outlets insubstantially fine streams, thus obviating the spilling of the waterover the walk or floor, as when the bristles are dipped into the pail orvessel containing the water.

I claim- 1. The combination, with a brush composed of a perforated headand bristles attached thereto, of a receptacle or reservoir secured tothe said head and provided with a handle, and an automatically-operatedvalve, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a brush com- In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this specification in the presence of two 10 subscribingWitnesses.

HENRY \VILLIAM MUNC/II.

\Vitn esses:

CHARLES WV. HOPKINS, G. R. ML NCH, Jr.

